by Chuck L.
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January 19, 2009

Hiram College horror Memories, long forgotten

October 31, 2009 01:31 PM EDT (Updated: October 31, 2009 03:12 PM EDT)
views: 184 | comments: 32

In 1967, at Hiram College, behind a door, in a cabinet, in a biology laboratory, resided a cardboard box of very little weight. If you lifted the box, it would rustle. If you opened it, excelsior (finely shaved curls of wood) was exposed. If you lifted the excelsior, very curly black hair was revealed. If you lifted out the hair, the dessicated head of a young woman came with it. No one knows why her head is there, but I was told it had been there since the '30s.

That box was still there the last time I visited.  It may be there yet.

This was NOT a story.

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Comments: 32

Teresa A. Oct 31, 2009, 1:52pm EDT
Gross....
Chuck L. Oct 31, 2009, 1:53pm EDT
True, dat!
Leo Lemmer Oct 31, 2009, 2:00pm EDT
College memories! I once held a human brain in my hand.
Chuck L. Oct 31, 2009, 2:02pm EDT
I'm a biologist. You don't want a list of the things I've held.
Sometimes I get to go over to the anatomy lab and take photos of the cadavers, or as I like to call them, the jerky people.
Linda T. Oct 31, 2009, 2:18pm EDT
Not something I would want to discover.
oh no thanks for the memories~ ;)
Chuck L. Oct 31, 2009, 2:44pm EDT
Now, Purrrrrrrrr... she's long forgotten why she's there.
Thanks for posting to GutterGirls~
Angel sent from God Secret Sisters Oct 31, 2009, 2:54pm EDT
Wow thats strange.
Chuck L. Oct 31, 2009, 2:59pm EDT
Yup!
Angel sent from God Secret Sisters Oct 31, 2009, 2:54pm EDT
bats

bats Tags
Franklin Newman Oct 31, 2009, 3:37pm EDT
That's terrifying!
Jan S. Oct 31, 2009, 5:05pm EDT
Icky-poo!
Chuck L. Oct 31, 2009, 5:13pm EDT
Nah - I said it was desiccated. Nuthin' icky about it ;-)
Beth G. Oct 31, 2009, 6:10pm EDT
That is disturbing! Btw, I applied to Hiram College.
P.W. Dowdy Oct 31, 2009, 6:42pm EDT
I like your story-telling. This one is as delightful as the others of yours I've read!
Chuck L. Oct 31, 2009, 8:13pm EDT
Now THAT'S and interesting sense of delight.
P.W. Dowdy Oct 31, 2009, 8:49pm EDT
see what I mean?
Annmarie B. Oct 31, 2009, 7:15pm EDT
So nobody knows who it is or is this for Halloween?
Chuck L. Oct 31, 2009, 8:17pm EDT
So far as I know, she is truly unknown. If she's still there, someone should give her a final rest.

This is NOT a Halloween "story." It's the absolute truth. Should anyone from Hiram College happen to come across this post, I'd like to know whether she's still in the bio lab. Check under wallside counters.
Chris B. Nov 1, 2009, 1:07am EST
Truly unsettling. I was a courier for a time, and most of my pickups/deliveries were between hospitals. I don't know what was in those packages, and reading this, I'm glad I didn't know.
Kathryn E. Nov 1, 2009, 2:38am EST
I do know that one can find the weirdest things in a bio lab...

What also strikes me is why her hair would still be black but her face was old? or only that her head was dessicated...gross and ewe.


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Dorothy H. Nov 1, 2009, 10:48am EST
No one knows where the head came from in the first place?

No one knows who it belonged to or how it resulted in being sperated from it's body?

That's sad.

Are there at least some guesses?
Adrian Eve Revenaugh Nov 1, 2009, 3:09pm EST
From which began the rest of the story; perhaps several of them.
Adrian Eve Revenaugh Nov 1, 2009, 3:12pm EST
It reads like the opening of a campfire tale.

May the missing parts go their separate way. The Surreal Circus
Angela A. Nov 1, 2009, 6:42pm EST
Wow, thanks for the back story.
Thanks for posting to my group, Anythingwriting
Chas Andrews Nov 4, 2009, 12:07pm EST
wow. very interesting. at the college I went to a girl died in the Olympic-sized pool.
David C. Nov 4, 2009, 3:21pm EST
Great story, Chuck. Perfectly appropriate for Halloween.
Sheila Deeth Nov 5, 2009, 2:26am EST
Fascinating.
Sandre M. Nov 5, 2009, 11:57am EST
Makes me wonder about everyone who worked in the department in the 30's and whether or not any of them had a "significant other" disappear.
Erica Hidvegi Nov 7, 2009, 1:55pm EST
I worked a catering gig at the college one night and me and my partner saw a shadow eminating from the biology lab and her and I swear it was a woman floating looking for her . . . head. Not kidding either and the story is very real, very true yet no-one says much about a disappearance of anyone around the 30's . . . Thanks for sharing !

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